Principal Software Engineering Lead - Xbox

Come help build the next evolution in Xbox Game Compatibility. Join the Xbox Platform team and leverage your system engineering experience to advance the future of Game Preservation. As a Principal Software Engineering Lead, your work will help identify and outline the specific requirements and technical boundaries for preserving game content, build scalable emulation solutions, and ensure a fun gameplay experience for all players. Our technology solutions are a critical part of enabling the Xbox goal of allowing players to continue to enjoy their games across devices. As the GPU Team Lead on our team you will help drive the technical strategy, architectural direction, and execution quality for graphics and GPU‑related systems within the Xbox Game Preservation organization. This role combines deep technical expertise across the graphics stack with strong engineering leadership, enabling the team to deliver compatibility, rendering correctness, and high‑performance GPU behavior across all Xbox endpoints. You will guide a team of engineers working on GPU emulation, command buffer translation, shader compilation, graphics debugging, and performance tuning across multiple hardware generations. You will partner closely with hardware vendors, platform teams, and other internal/external partners to ensure that future graphics systems remain robust, scalable, and aligned with long‑term product goals.